WHY DO YOU MARRY?
...For some, it’s a softer escape
A flight from silence, not quite love
As if a ring alone could mend a soul
Bruised by too many “maybe tomorrows."
To others, it’s help dressed in vows
A lifeline...
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Categories:
fatten out, 12th grade, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Intrusive Thoughts
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Like unwelcome intruders,
it is in the stillness of the night,
intrusive thoughts come to plague us.
Like thieves sneaking in the dark,
they come without prior information
and without w...
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Categories:
fatten out, anger, anxiety, scary,
Form: Free verse
Tailored to Grow Up
...In the world of today girls feel the need to sexualize themselves.
Social validation is more important to them than personal values, family, and getting good grades.
Makeup and skincare can be fou...
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Categories:
fatten out, 10th grade, anxiety, innocence,
Form: Other
Liturgy for the Damned of Progress
...My wounded heart drinks deep from the rotting gut of misery,
Humanity vomits its relics onto the oozing tiles of the real.
I see kids chewing syringes like candy canes,
Their innocence smashed, fa...
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Categories:
fatten out, america, change, christian, community,
Form: Rhyme
The Belly's Reign
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For Oliver’s: The Bard’s Birthday Contest
03/30/25
Julius Caesar – Act 1 Scene 2 Verse 190-195
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cass...
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Categories:
fatten out, appreciation,
Form: Burlesque
Greed governs some love
...Humans, long a self-seeking breed,
Oft concoct love foreseeing need.
With tender grass lush green
Does a butcher fatten
His sheep in his own selfish greed.
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Translation |37....
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Categories:
fatten out, love, men, self,
Form: Quintain (English)
Severance Pay
...Time hands seconds past the minute,
winter melts the sands,
sprung barter the seeds to take root,
petals leave for lands.
Abandoned juice bathes the barren,
weather soaks wet dreams,
towering...
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Categories:
fatten out, environment, growth, imagery, new
Form: Rhyme
What Of The Witching Hour
...They project at night in the wee hours looking
to see what they can harvest
Be still so that you can grow to know peace or else
the lessons reaped will be the hardest
They don't know your reach t...
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Categories:
fatten out, moon, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Funeral Urn
...“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we know
yet come what may, our inner child continue...
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Categories:
fatten out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
When Hatch Down Did Batten Horn Haik
...when hatch down did batten
then up would have to fatten
when I learned Latin...
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Categories:
fatten out, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Body Ails Yet Spirit Soars
...Written: October 28, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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Amid the distress and pressure of life,
A salient soul suspires to s...
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Categories:
fatten out, analogy, angst, bereavement, character,
Form: Rhyme
Magnificent Coconut
...Written: October 09, 2023
Coconuts Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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Over the tropical sun, where palm trees s...
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Categories:
fatten out, analogy, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
There In the Wild River
...There in the wild river
By Michelle Morris
11/08/2023
There in the wild river
Where the white rapids flow
They're chasing down new dreams
They're chasing rainbows
And the salmon
They s...
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Categories:
fatten out, beautiful, earth day, life,
Form: Free verse
Over the Pill
...Red one
Blue one
Old on
New one
Ah heck
Side effects
I think I am
Due one
They’ll flatten
Or fatten
Always been
In Latin
Or tongue twistish
Latinglish
To patent
A statin
But I’ve...
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Categories:
fatten out, growth, satire,
Form: Rhyme
His Eyes They Saw Raindrops
...Cackle like hens
might the fox
find you
he spoke.
that those who
feedest thee sowest not
but sprinkle grains to fatten
might the fox
spoil the harvest
there labors shall be in vain!
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Categories:
fatten out, music, myth, relationship,
Form: Ballade
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